how to have multiple configurations to boot in picore+

[bmarkus]

Try /mnt/mmcblk0p2/tce

Just for curiosity, you can try to with /tc1 /tce2 ... /tcen and symlink one to /tce on the same partition.

[lykkedk]

Okay...

I am busy rest of evening, but will report back.

I am writing a script, which shall make user choose between 2-3 diff. Setups on same SD card..

Jesper

[manit123]

i think
(1)no editing required in config.txt if your hdmi connected device displays OK .(you can uncomment #hdmi_drive=2 if you do not get audio in OS)
(2)currently my cmdline.txt reads

dwc_otg.fiq_enable=1 dwc_otg.fiq_fsm_enable=1 dwc_otg.fiq_fsm_mask=0x3 dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 initrd=0xa00000,3638903 root=/dev/ram0 elevator=deadline rootwait nortc loglevel=3 waitusb=5

Say , I want lst=server.lst & lst=local.lst in first & second entry respectively . There should be timeout of 30 seconds . Then , what should I do ?

[bmarkus]

Problem is that before booting video and USB terminal doesn't work, you don't have a peripherial device to see and select what to boot, practically it doesn't work. UBOOT is different, it has its own small "OS" running on the hardware in a limited way to perform such operations. It requires a kernel with device tree support also. It is not a simple staff to get it working on the Pi, you need a lot to do not only scripting. You may read http://elinux.org/RPi_U-Boot

[lykkedk]

Hi. -I figured it out now.

Try /mnt/mmcblk0p2/tce

Just for curiosity, you can try to with /tc1 /tce2 ... /tcen and symlink one to /tce on the same partition.

Syntax for choose tce -dir is ::

tce=mmcblk0p2/tce (or whatever e.g. tce=mmcblk0p2/tce/tce-a)

Regards;
   Jesper.

[manit123]

from what I have read , it is difficult to give user option to choose boot entry as usb driver for keyboard are not loaded .
I think , bmarkus said that one way is to create a script that modifies cmdline.txt for next reboot .
Personally , I would prefix lst=something.lst in cmdline.txt  for different configurations & let all tcz,dep remain in tce/optional of second partition of micro sd card.

I came across berryboot which helps.
I tried to follow http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot/adding_custom_distributions for picore images .
But expected results were not obtained .
Will give full details ASAP .

[manit123]

while following http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot/adding_custom_distributions , I get stuck here

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$ sudo kpartx -av piCore-5.3-SSH.img
add map loop1p1 (252:1): 0 43008 linear /dev/loop1 2048
device-mapper: resume ioctl on loop1p2 failed: Invalid argument
create/reload failed on loop1p2
add map loop1p2 (0:0): 0 19584 linear /dev/loop1 45056